... VAGRANCY. John Gratham was charged with vagrancy by sleep- ing at the Varteg Hill Works on the previous night. Prisoner pleaded guilty.—P.c. Saunders said he found prisoner in the locomotive shed at the Varteg Hill Colliery on Wednesday night, when he said be had obtained work, and was going to start in the morning. Witness thonght of taking him to the foreman, but he then denied having sought ...

... THE IRISH IN THE TOWER HAMl4 *Ir. James Bryce, the Liberal member ft' lower Hamlets, was announced to dliver annual address on Tuesday nigntto his constitl1 at the Bow and Bromley Institute, How R* building capable of accommodating 1,500 peopl6, hall was crowded to overflowing, and a consul number of Irishmen, sympathisers with tbÐ prisoned suspects, contrived to assemble platform. The ...

... ABERGAVENNY. The first concert of the Abergavenny Cbo^^B Society for this season was held in the Town-ha^M on Monday evening, when Romberg's Lay° H the Bell was most creditably performed bef01 a large and appreciative audience, consisting H the leading residents of the neighbourhood. Bartholomew, of Ludlow, was the conductor, the principal vocalists were Miss Gertrude Le R.A.M., of Cardiff ...

... LONDON CATTLE MARKET.—THURSDAY. 350 beasts 30 foreign. Trade quiet, at 4s to oslOd* 1100 sheep. Trade dull at 5s 6d to 7s 4d. 60 calves. Trade firm at 5s 6d to 6s 6d. Pigs quoted 4s 6d to 5s 2d per SIbs. ...

... t> ,sPeech at the opening of the Prus- sian Diet, the Chamber is especially congratulated on the prosperous state of the revenue. itinthese circumstances a moderate loan is required, it is in order to secure a more effectual furtherance of the economic interests of ths State by promot- ing productive works. Bills are to be intro- duced for the benefit of retiring officials. Govern- ment are ...

... TH -nEW YEAR BELLS, o joyous bells that haste to greet The new-born year with music sweet, And fills the mystic noon of night With spirit fancies, pure, and bright. Glad Now Year'Bells I love your chimes; They speak to me of happier times They tell of clouds and darkness sped, Of sonows with the Old Year dead. O happy bells sweet chiming bells There comes mid your joyous swells • A promise of ...

... TiTE RELEASE OF INNOCENT The two men, Johnson aud Clowes, who day morning v, ere transferred from Chatham vict I'rison to Millbauk Penitentiary, prepai to their release, weru libtratulat a later hour1 day. lliey auiv. d at lJurslein at 3.20 p.m. iJeJ to the house of Mr. R. Clewes, lieys Inn, wuh whom they are acquainted correspondent, who had an interview with tl leased prisoners, says :— ...

... «»u™ «*» I'j-ASTERS are the only real remcdv The*d4N tBvsWN more time for^ p4fect?J enlarged toe jmnts require relief instantaneou Anv hAn* ce*ain and three hours after applyfn7 Del ar'T^laSterT°mn7ith C0mt0rt be persuaded to biy anl other Boxes is iLn° a £ eount eold by most Chemists. Boxes, is. 1H each, are T^RA1!ID 1 NE~TARAXACCM AN-D PoDopHvrnw This iluid combinttion, extracted from ...

... PONTYPOOL POLICE COURT. FRIDAY. (Before the Rev J. C. LLEWELLIN). A SOLDIER'S WIFE IN TROUBLE. Elizabeth Jennings, a woman with a child in her arms, was charged with being drunk on the highway at Pontypool on Thursday iiigbt.-P.c. Bladon stated the case.-Defendant said that the drink had been given her by some friends, and that she was the wife of a soldier belonging to the 23rd Royal Welsh ...

... GARNDIFFAITH. The anniversary of Sardis Independent aPel was held on Sunday last, when three sermons were preached by the Rev H. Oliver, n'i ° Newpor The collections amounted to £ 10 5s, exclusive of other sums that will be lorthcoming. The dissolving views exhibited at the Cal- vinistic Methodist Chapel on Monday evening were very interesting. The subject was, A Pleasant Evening in Picture ...

... BODY SNATCHING. A correspondent sends to a contemporary the following statement, as to which he alleges the facts are within his personal knowledge. Body snatching is not, perhaps, so utterly unknown in England nowadays as some people would suppose, and it would seem that it is occasionally even pos- sible to carry it out under legal sanction. A case is likely to come before the law courts ...

... LONDON HAY MARKET.—THURSDAY. Moderate supply trade dull for clover and hay; dovor lntvffn l £ ead.°Y hay for straw stiffer. Prime f °Te °f I o}3os lnferior, 60s to 95s; prime meadow per load 5.inferior, 50s to 90s; straw 30s to55s ...